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Physical Review E – October 1993
Volume 48, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Magnetization direction in the Heisenberg model exhibiting fractional Brownian motion
Zhengping Zhang, Ole G. Mouritsen, and Martin J. Zuckermann
pp. R2327-R2330 [View Page Images or PDF (581 kB)]
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Scaling properties of trough densities in sandpile models
Kwan-tai Leung
pp. R2331-R2334 [View Page Images or PDF (574 kB)]
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Cluster effect in initially homogeneous traffic flow
B. S. Kerner and P. Konhäuser
pp. R2335-R2338 [View Page Images or PDF (757 kB)]
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Staircase polygons and recurrent lattice walks
M. L. Glasser and E. Montaldi
pp. R2339-R2342 [View Page Images or PDF (299 kB)]
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Renormalization-group approach to simple reaction-diffusion phenomena
Michel Droz and László Sasvári
pp. R2343-R2346 [View Page Images or PDF (744 kB)]
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S-matrix fluctuations in a model with classical diffusion and quantum localization
Fausto Borgonovi and Italo Guarneri
pp. R2347-R2350 [View Page Images or PDF (762 kB)]
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Internal fluctuations in a model of chemical chaos
J. Güémez and M. A. Matías
pp. R2351-R2353 [View Page Images or PDF (536 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Observation of chain stretching in Langmuir diblock copolymer monolayers
Bradford J. Factor, Lay-Theng Lee, Michael S. Kent, and Francis Rondelez
pp. R2354-R2357 [View Page Images or PDF (838 kB)]
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Depolarized dynamic light scattering from optically anisotropic reaction-limited aggregates
A. Vailati, D. Asnaghi, M. Giglio, and R. Piazza
pp. R2358-R2361 [View Page Images or PDF (546 kB)]
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Composition waves in confined geometries
Wen-Jong Ma, Pawel Keblinski, Amos Maritan, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. R2362-R2365 [View Page Images or PDF (712 kB)]
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Nematic liquid crystal in a tube: The Fréedericksz transition
D. R. M. Williams and A. Halperin
pp. R2366-R2369 [View Page Images or PDF (639 kB)]
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Director-charge coupling in a ferroelectric liquid crystal: Experiment
Min-Hua Lu and Charles Rosenblatt
pp. R2370-R2373 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Growth of three-dimensional silver fractal electrodeposits under damped free convection
P. Carro, S. L. Marchiano, A. Hernández Creus, S. González, R. C. Salvarezza, and A. J. Arvia
pp. R2374-R2377 [View Page Images or PDF (799 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Efficient generation of highly ionized calcium and titanium plasma columns for collisionally excited soft-x-ray lasers in a fast capillary discharge
J. J. Rocca, O. D. Cortázar, F. G. Tomasel, and B. T. Szapiro
pp. R2378-R2381 [View Page Images or PDF (819 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Driven diffusion of particles, first-passage front, and interface growth
R. Bidaux and R. B. Pandey
pp. 2382-2385 [View Page Images or PDF (796 kB)]
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Finite-length scaling of collapsing directed walks
T. Prellberg, A. L. Owczarek, R. Brak, and A. J. Guttmann
pp. 2386-2396 [View Page Images or PDF (1,655 kB)]
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First-passage times and survival probabilities for particles moving in a field of random correlated forces
J. Heinrichs
pp. 2397-2401 [View Page Images or PDF (828 kB)]
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Effective Fokker-Planck equation: Path-integral formalism
T. G. Venkatesh and L. M. Patnaik
pp. 2402-2412 [View Page Images or PDF (1,864 kB)]
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Two-dimensional sandpile model with stochastic slide
H. F. Ouyang, Y. N. Lu, and E. J. Ding
pp. 2413-2417 [View Page Images or PDF (811 kB)]
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Unidimensional games, propitious environments, and maximum diversity
Tasso R. M. Sales
pp. 2418-2421 [View Page Images or PDF (596 kB)]
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Growth kinetics in systems with local symmetry
Fong Liu
pp. 2422-2425 [View Page Images or PDF (610 kB)]
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Using chaos to keep period-multiplied systems in phase
Thomas L. Carroll and Louis M. Pecora
pp. 2426-2436 [View Page Images or PDF (2,034 kB)]
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Kramers problem in periodic potentials: Jump rate and jump lengths
R. Ferrando, R. Spadacini, and G. E. Tommei
pp. 2437-2451 [View Page Images or PDF (2,139 kB)]
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Phase ordering in one-dimensional systems with long-range interactions
Benjamin P. Lee and John L. Cardy
pp. 2452-2465 [View Page Images or PDF (2,334 kB)]
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Classification theory for anequilibrium phase transitions
R. Hilfer
pp. 2466-2475 [View Page Images or PDF (1,818 kB)]
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Absolute test for theories of phase-ordering dynamics
R. E. Blundell, A. J. Bray, and S. Sattler
pp. 2476-2480 [View Page Images or PDF (827 kB)]
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Schmitt trigger: A solvable model of stochastic resonance
V. I. Melnikov
pp. 2481-2489 [View Page Images or PDF (1,079 kB)]
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Excluded-volume interactions in tethered membranes
Yacov Kantor and Kurt Kremer
pp. 2490-2497 [View Page Images or PDF (1,635 kB)]
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Finite-size scaling and the crossover to mean-field critical behavior in the two-dimensional Ising model with medium-ranged interactions
K. K. Mon and K. Binder
pp. 2498-2506 [View Page Images or PDF (1,274 kB)]
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Logistic map driven by dichotomous noise
J. M. Gutierrez, A. Iglesias, and M. A. Rodriguez
pp. 2507-2513 [View Page Images or PDF (1,044 kB)]
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Analog study of bifurcation structures in a Van der Pol oscillator with a nonlinear restoring force
Yao-Huang Kao and Ching-Sheu Wang
pp. 2514-2520 [View Page Images or PDF (1,227 kB)]
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Lattice-gas analog of density-functional theory: Application to ordering transitions
M. Nieswand, A. Majhofer, and W. Dieterich
pp. 2521-2527 [View Page Images or PDF (1,127 kB)]
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Macroscopic equilibrium from microscopic irreversibility in a chaotic coupled-map lattice
Jonathan Miller and David A. Huse
pp. 2528-2535 [View Page Images or PDF (1,524 kB)]
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Real symmetric random matrix ensembles of Hamiltonians with partial symmetry breaking
David M. Leitner
pp. 2536-2546 [View Page Images or PDF (1,912 kB)]
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Probability of a tossed coin landing on edge
Daniel B. Murray and Scott W. Teare
pp. 2547-2552 [View Page Images or PDF (1,024 kB)]
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Theory of continuum random walks and application to chemotaxis
Mark J. Schnitzer
pp. 2553-2568 [View Page Images or PDF (2,961 kB)]
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Forbidden bifurcations and parametric amplification in a Josephson-junction array
Steve Nichols and Kurt Wiesenfeld
pp. 2569-2574 [View Page Images or PDF (1,009 kB)]
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Surface-diffusion-driven kinetic growth on one-dimensional substrates
P. I. Tamborenea and S. Das Sarma
pp. 2575-2594 [View Page Images or PDF (3,483 kB)]
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Riemann zeros and a fractal potential
Hua Wu and D. W. L. Sprung
pp. 2595-2598 [View Page Images or PDF (546 kB)]
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Growth in a restricted-curvature model
Jin Min Kim and S. Das Sarma
pp. 2599-2602 [View Page Images or PDF (622 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Time-series expansion for reaction processes
E. Ben-Naim and J. Zhuo
pp. 2603-2609 [View Page Images or PDF (1,206 kB)]
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Hard-particle-fluid equation of state and phase transition employing nearest-neighbor correlations
U. F. Edgal and D. L. Huber
pp. 2610-2621 [View Page Images or PDF (2,160 kB)]
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Spinodal decomposition in 3-space
Aritomo Shinozaki and Yoshitsugu Oono
pp. 2622-2654 [View Page Images or PDF (6,039 kB)]
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Statistical hydrodynamics of lattice-gas automata
Patrick Grosfils, Jean-Pierre Boon, Ricardo Brito, and Matthieu H. Ernst
pp. 2655-2668 [View Page Images or PDF (2,225 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Coupling between a coherent structure and fine-scale turbulence
Mogens V. Melander and Fazle Hussain
pp. 2669-2689 [View Page Images or PDF (11,845 kB)]
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Interaction of two liquid solitary waves in a trough resonator
Lu-Jun Chen, Chang-Hong Liang, and Hong-Shi Wu
pp. 2690-2694 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]
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Thermal dependence of the characteristic time of a chemical reaction
L. Letamendia, M. Belkadi, G. Nouchi, C. Vaucamps, and M. Benseddik
pp. 2695-2698 [View Page Images or PDF (607 kB)]
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Effects of disorder in pattern formation
Walter Zimmermann, Markus Seesselberg, and Francesco Petruccione
pp. 2699-2703 [View Page Images or PDF (803 kB)]
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Localized states in a film-dragging experiment
F. Melo
pp. 2704-2712 [View Page Images or PDF (2,616 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Ordering effects in thin smectic-C* films: An x-ray-reflectivity study
E. Olbrich, O. Marinov, and D. Davidov
pp. 2713-2720 [View Page Images or PDF (1,332 kB)]
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Many-body electrostatic interactions in electrorheological fluids
H. J. H. Clercx and G. Bossis
pp. 2721-2738 [View Page Images or PDF (3,033 kB)]
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Static and dynamic collective correlations of polymer brushes
J. F. Marko and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. 2739-2743 [View Page Images or PDF (1,003 kB)]
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Static shear stress of electrorheological fluids
G. L. Gulley and R. Tao
pp. 2744-2751 [View Page Images or PDF (1,050 kB)]
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Structure and properties of anisotropic gels and plasticized networks containing molecules with a smectic-A phase
R. A. M. Hikmet and R. Howard
pp. 2752-2759 [View Page Images or PDF (1,509 kB)]
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Metastable wetting layers
Bruce M. Law
pp. 2760-2765 [View Page Images or PDF (897 kB)]
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Neutron-scattering evidence for the coupling of shear and reorientational motions in the viscoelastic liquid quinoline
F. J. Bermejo, M. García-Hernández, W. S. Howells, R. Burriel, F. J. Mompeán, and D. Martin
pp. 2766-2775 [View Page Images or PDF (1,735 kB)]
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Stochastic transport in heterogeneous media with multiple families of transport paths
Barry D. Hughes and Muhammad Sahimi
pp. 2776-2785 [View Page Images or PDF (1,660 kB)]
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In situ studies of colloidal aggregation induced by alternating electrical fields
Qi-huo Wei, Xiao-hua Liu, Cai-hua Zhou, and Nai-ben Ming
pp. 2786-2791 [View Page Images or PDF (1,225 kB)]
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Conductance measurement in the micellar nematic and lamellar smectic phases of the cesium perfluoro octanoate-H2O system at high magnetic fields
Chris Barnes, Chris Frank, Bill Leybold, and Panos Photinos
pp. 2792-2795 [View Page Images or PDF (735 kB)]
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Layer buckling in smectic-A liquid crystals and two-dimensional stripe phases
Sherwin J. Singer
pp. 2796-2804 [View Page Images or PDF (1,409 kB)]
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Sound propagation in suspensions of solid spheres
Ling Ye, Jing Liu, Ping Sheng, and D. A. Weitz
pp. 2805-2815 [View Page Images or PDF (2,349 kB)]
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Angular correlations and the isotropic-nematic phase transition in suspensions of tobacco mosaic virus
Seth Fraden, Georg Maret, and D. L. D. Caspar
pp. 2816-2837 [View Page Images or PDF (4,547 kB)]
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Dynamics of order-parameter and director fluctuations in the nematic phase of a lyotropic liquid crystal
J. P. McClymer and P. H. Keyes
pp. 2838-2841 [View Page Images or PDF (612 kB)]
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Ordering dynamics of microscopic models with nonconserved order parameter of continuous symmetry
Z. Zhang, O. G. Mouritsen, and M. J. Zuckermann
pp. 2842-2849 [View Page Images or PDF (1,387 kB)]
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Dynamic light scattering from a highly swollen nonionic lamellar liquid crystal
C. Y. Zhang, S. Sprunt, and J. D. Litster
pp. 2850-2855 [View Page Images or PDF (935 kB)]
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Helfrich shape equation for axisymmetric vesicles as a first integral
Wei-Mou Zheng and Jixing Liu
pp. 2856-2860 [View Page Images or PDF (628 kB)]
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Influence of surface interactions on spinodal decomposition
J. F. Marko
pp. 2861-2879 [View Page Images or PDF (4,566 kB)]
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Instability and pattern formation in colloidal-suspension Taylor-Couette flow
Jian-Yang Yuan and David M. Ronis
pp. 2880-2897 [View Page Images or PDF (2,864 kB)]
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Gaussian field model of fluids with an application to polymeric fluids
David Chandler
pp. 2898-2905 [View Page Images or PDF (1,200 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Simple passivation and depassivation model for pitting corrosion
Paul Meakin, Torstein Jøssang, and Jens Feder
pp. 2906-2916 [View Page Images or PDF (2,845 kB)]
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Pulses and global bifurcations in a nonlocal reaction-diffusion system
Michael D. Graham, Usuf Middya, and Dan Luss
pp. 2917-2923 [View Page Images or PDF (1,388 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Instability of the overdense plasma boundary induced by the action of a powerful photon beam
E. G. Gamaly
pp. 2924-2928 [View Page Images or PDF (805 kB)]
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Laser-produced carbon plasma in an ambient gas
Abhilasha, P. S. R. Prasad, and R. K. Thareja
pp. 2929-2933 [View Page Images or PDF (791 kB)]
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Plasma effects on atomic reaction rates in hydrogen plasmas
Jun Li and Yukap Hahn
pp. 2934-2945 [View Page Images or PDF (1,695 kB)]
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Effects of negative ions on nonlinear wave propagation in a magnetized rotating plasma
P. K. Kashyapi, B. Chakraborty, and S. N. Paul
pp. 2946-2954 [View Page Images or PDF (1,025 kB)]
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Scalar model for plasma turbulence
J. L. Ottinger and D. Carati
pp. 2955-2965 [View Page Images or PDF (1,781 kB)]
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Multidimensional modulation of Alfvén waves
Thierry Passot and Pierre-Louis Sulem
pp. 2966-2974 [View Page Images or PDF (1,177 kB)]
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Eigenfunction for dissipative dynamic operators and the attractor of the dissipative structure
Yoshiomi Kondoh
pp. 2975-2979 [View Page Images or PDF (820 kB)]
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Nonlinear conductivity and composition of partially ionized plasmas in a strong electric field
K. Morawetz, M. Schlanges, and D. Kremp
pp. 2980-2988 [View Page Images or PDF (1,360 kB)]
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Straggling of an extended charge distribution in a partially degenerate plasma
A. Bret and C. Deutsch
pp. 2989-2993 [View Page Images or PDF (532 kB)]
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Dielectric response function and stopping power of a two-dimensional electron gas
A. Bret and C. Deutsch
pp. 2994-3002 [View Page Images or PDF (1,053 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Nonlinear Thomson scattering of intense laser pulses from beams and plasmas
Eric Esarey, Sally K. Ride, and Phillip Sprangle
pp. 3003-3021 [View Page Images or PDF (3,204 kB)]
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Luminosity enhancement by a self-ionized plasma in e+e- collisions
P. Chen, C.-K. Ng, and S. Rajagopalan
pp. 3022-3029 [View Page Images or PDF (1,405 kB)]
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Spectral properties of two-harmonic undulator radiation
G. Dattoli and G. Voykov
pp. 3030-3039 [View Page Images or PDF (914 kB)]
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Minimizing dispersion in flexible-momentum-compaction lattices
S. Y. Lee, K. Y. Ng, and D. Trbojevic
pp. 3040-3048 [View Page Images or PDF (1,508 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Internal dynamics of a vector soliton in a nonlinear optical fiber
D. J. Kaup, Boris A. Malomed, and Richard S. Tasgal
pp. 3049-3053 [View Page Images or PDF (815 kB)]
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Exact N-soliton solution of the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Shan-liang Liu and Wen-zheng Wang
pp. 3054-3059 [View Page Images or PDF (397 kB)]
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Electromagnetism in a moving chiral medium
Pierre Hillion
pp. 3060-3065 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]
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Symmetry analysis of the Infeld-Rowlands equation
M. Faucher and P. Winternitz
pp. 3066-3071 [View Page Images or PDF (802 kB)]
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Autoresonant interaction of three nonlinear adiabatic oscillators
Shalom Yariv and Lazar Friedland
pp. 3072-3076 [View Page Images or PDF (756 kB)]
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Peierls-Nabarro potential barrier for highly localized nonlinear modes
Yuri S. Kivshar and David K. Campbell
pp. 3077-3081 [View Page Images or PDF (931 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Grain-boundary buckling and spin-glass models of disorder in membranes
Carlo Carraro and David R. Nelson
pp. 3082-3090 [View Page Images or PDF (1,545 kB)]
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Self-consistent-field treatment of the dissociation of bound molecules in solution
Carlos E. Galindo and J. B. Sokoloff
pp. 3091-3098 [View Page Images or PDF (1,443 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the effect of salt and the role of strained hydrogen bonds on the thermal stability of DNA polymers
Y. Z. Chen and E. W. Prohofsky
pp. 3099-3106 [View Page Images or PDF (1,482 kB)]
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Simulating an exploration of RNA conformation space with an appropriate parallel-updating strategy
Ariel Fernández
pp. 3107-3111 [View Page Images or PDF (891 kB)]
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Nonaxisymmetric vesicle shapes in a generalized bilayer-couple model and the transition between oblate and prolate axisymmetric shapes
Volkmar Heinrich, Saša Svetina, and Boštjan Žekš
pp. 3112-3123 [View Page Images or PDF (2,332 kB)]
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Theory of dendritic morphology
Yoshihide Tamori
pp. 3124-3129 [View Page Images or PDF (1,014 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Paraxial wave-optics simulation of x-ray lasers
James W. Greene
pp. 3130-3160 [View Page Images or PDF (4,638 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Plasma Physics

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Wake-field accelerator in a ferromagnetic waveguide
Han S. Uhm
pp. 3161-3164 [View Page Images or PDF (663 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Using nonlinear saturated feedback to control chaos: The Hénon map
José Alvarez-Ramírez
pp. 3165-3167 [View Page Images or PDF (487 kB)]
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Phase-transition study of a one-dimensional probabilistic site-exchange cellular automaton
Géza Ódor, Nino Boccara, and György Szabó
pp. 3168-3171 [View Page Images or PDF (585 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Refractive index of waterlike fluids
S.-H. Kim, B. DeFacio, and G. Vignale
pp. 3172-3175 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Concentration fluctuation in a polymer mixture
N. Kuwahara, H. Sato, and K. Kubota
pp. 3176-3179 [View Page Images or PDF (543 kB)]
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Relation of growth and equilibrium crystal shapes
M. Elbaum and J. S. Wettlaufer
pp. 3180-3183 [View Page Images or PDF (1,031 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Depolarization of light by an imperfect polarizer
J. Krása, J. Jiřička, and M. Lokajíček
pp. 3184-3186 [View Page Images or PDF (307 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Unified expression for Fermi and Bose distributions’’
Xian-Geng Zhao and Jixing Liu
pp. 3187-3189 [View Page Images or PDF (276 kB)]
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Melnikov function and homoclinic chaos induced by weak perturbations
E. Simiu and M. Frey
pp. 3190-3192 [View Page Images or PDF (511 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Melnikov function and homoclinic chaos induced by weak perturbations’’
A. R. Bulsara, W. C. Schieve, and E. W. Jacobs
pp. 3193-3195 [View Page Images or PDF (455 kB)]
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Comment I on ‘‘Possible experiment to check the reality of a nonequilibrium temperature’’
W. G. Hoover, Brad Lee Holian, and Harald A. Posch
pp. 3196-3198 [View Page Images or PDF (482 kB)]
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Comment II on ‘‘Possible experiment to check the reality of a nonequilibrium temperature’’
Katja Henjes
pp. 3199-3200 [View Page Images or PDF (214 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comments on ‘Possible experiment to check the reality of a nonequilibrium temperature’ ’’
D. Jou and J. Casas-Vázquez
pp. 3201-3202 [View Page Images or PDF (248 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Bulk and interfacial properties of polar and molecular fluids
Peter Frodl and S. Dietrich
pp. 3203 [View Page Images or PDF (47 kB)]
 
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